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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Feeling through fingertips






2. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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3. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






4. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






5. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






6. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






7. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






8. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






9. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






10. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






11. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






12. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






13. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






14. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






15. Multisensory Structured Language Education






16. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






17. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






18. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






19. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






20. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






21. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






22. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






23. Individual Educational Plan






24. r-controlled syllable






25. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






26. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






27. State Board of Eduation






28. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






29. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






30. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






31. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






32. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






33. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






34. Multisensory Structured Language






35. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






36. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






37. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






38. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






39. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






40. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






41. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






42. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






43. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






44. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






45. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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46. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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47. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






48. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






49. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






50. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.